Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#15183
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Hans Conried represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 39 years in, and Hans is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Hans Conried appears in 14 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Hans. The Great Dictator is the clearest case: a film rated 8.1 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, quiet performance. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for science fiction, comedy, family. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Norman Tokar, Ralph Bakshi, Arthur Rankin, Jr. and others, Hans Conried helped set a standard other performers now audition against. Awards bodies have been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
The Great Dictator (1940) as Undetermined Role (uncredited) · Peter Pan (1953) as Captain Hook / Mr. Darling (voice) · On the Town (1949) as Francois (uncredited)
Career snapshot
Ranked #15183 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
14
1939–1978
Career length
39 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.1
The Great Dictator
Average Nutevio score
6.6
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.3
The Great Dictator
Most frequent director
Norman Foster
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Norman Foster
Most common genre
Family
6 titles
Average runtime
1h 30m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.9
out of 10
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio metric
Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.
Nutevio Influence Score
6.7
out of 10
A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.
How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.
What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.
Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.
Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.
Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.
Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.
Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.
The reading other performers now have to answer.
Actor DNA
A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.
The shape of a career
Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.
Peak years
Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.
Best decade
1940s
6.8 average MV
The 1940s are where the work and the material meet. On the Town, Passage to Marseille, Journey into Fear — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1940s
6.8
Across 5 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1940s
7.0
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1930s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. It's a Wonderful World.
Most productive era
1940s
5 films
The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.
Range, mapped
Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.
| Genre | 1930s | 1940s | 1950s | 1970s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Action | — | 6.41 film | 6.01 film | — |
| Thriller | — | 6.52 films | — | — |
| Comedy | 6.41 film | 7.42 films | 6.51 film | 6.11 film |
| Crime | 6.41 film | — | — | — |
| Romance | 6.41 film | 6.71 film | 6.01 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Mr. Delmonico, Stage Manager.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
8.1 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer. Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
The current state of the argument, as Dr. Heffel.
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
Filter by genre or decade, and compare any two titles side by side.
14 of 14 films
as Undetermined Role (uncredited)
Directed by Charlie Chaplin
as Captain Hook / Mr. Darling (voice)
Directed by Clyde Geronimi
as Thorin (voice)
Directed by Arthur Rankin, Jr.
as Tom Jefferson / Crook (voice)
Directed by Hamilton Luske
as Dr. Terwilliker
Directed by Roy Rowland
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
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The defining work
#1
Undetermined Role (uncredited)
The Great Dictator (1940)
Performance score7.8
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Undetermined Role (uncredited) gives Hans Conried a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Captain Hook / Mr. Darling (voice)
Peter Pan (1953)
Performance score7.6
Peter Pan asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Captain Hook / Mr. Darling (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Thorin (voice)
The Hobbit (1977)
Performance score7.0
The Hobbit asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Thorin (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Tom Jefferson / Crook (voice)
Ben and Me (1953)
Performance score7.0
Ben and Me asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Tom Jefferson / Crook (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Undetermined Role (uncredited)
Start here. The Great Dictator is the clearest statement of what Hans Conried does — accessible, 125 minutes, and rated 8.1 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Hans at the most legible performance, then move forward in time so each film reads as a response to the one before it rather than a repetition of it.
Peter Pan (1953)
A deliberate change of key after The Great Dictator — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Ben and Me (1953)
Keeps the family register of Peter Pan but asks for a colder reading of it.
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. (1953)
Keeps the family register of Ben and Me but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Hobbit (1977)
Keeps the fantasy register of The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Norman Foster
Director
2 films together
Notably Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier
W.S. Van Dyke
Director
1 film together
Notably It's a Wonderful World
Charlie Chaplin
Director
1 film together
Notably The Great Dictator
Alfred Hitchcock
Director
1 film together
Notably Saboteur
Michael Curtiz
Director
1 film together
Notably Passage to Marseille
Stanley Donen
Director
1 film together
Notably On the Town
Clyde Geronimi
Director
1 film together
Notably Peter Pan
Hamilton Luske
Director
1 film together
Notably Ben and Me
Roy Rowland
Director
1 film together
Notably The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.
Josef von Sternberg
Director
1 film together
Notably Jet Pilot
Arthur Rankin, Jr.
Director
1 film together
Notably The Hobbit
Ralph Bakshi
Director
1 film together
Notably Wizards
Norman Tokar
Director
1 film together
Notably The Cat from Outer Space
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Norman Foster
Director
2 films together · 6.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Davy Crockett, King of the Wild FrontierCharlie Chaplin
Director
1 film together · 8.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Great DictatorClyde Geronimi
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Peter PanStanley Donen
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
On the TownAlfred Hitchcock
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SaboteurArthur Rankin, Jr.
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The HobbitHamilton Luske
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ben and MeMichael Curtiz
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Passage to MarseilleW.S. Van Dyke
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
It's a Wonderful WorldRalph Bakshi
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
WizardsRoy Rowland
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.Norman Tokar
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Cat from Outer SpaceJosef von Sternberg
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Jet PilotSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
The Great Dictator
as Undetermined Role (uncredited)
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Peter Pan
as Captain Hook / Mr. Darling (voice)
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
The Great Dictator
as Undetermined Role (uncredited)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Great Dictator
as Undetermined Role (uncredited)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Great Dictator
as Undetermined Role (uncredited)
If the career had to be argued in a single scene, our editors would pick one from this film and rest the case.
In their films' words
“You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Hans Conried has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Career Achievement
Awarded
39 years of relevant work — not merely a long career, but a long career of choices.
Family Legend
Awarded
6 catalogue titles in family, each one a reference point for the films that followed.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
The Great Dictator
as Undetermined Role (uncredited)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Great Dictator
as Undetermined Role (uncredited)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.
as Dr. Terwilliker
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
It's a Wonderful World
as Mr. Delmonico, Stage Manager
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Great Dictator
as Undetermined Role (uncredited)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier
as Thimblerig
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Peter Pan
as Captain Hook / Mr. Darling (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Jet Pilot
as Col. Matoff
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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